Ebook: Approaches to the Byzantine family

1. Looking for the family : the Greek and Roman background / Mary Harlow and Tim Parkin -- 2. Family violence : punishment and abuse in the late Roman household / Julia Hillner -- 3. Family relations and the socialisation of children in the autobiographical narratives of late antiquity / Ville Vuolanto -- 4. The death of the father in late antique Christian literature / Fotis Vasileiou -- 5. Preserving family honor : Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina as theological polemic / Nathan Howard -- 6. The family in the late antique west (AD 400-700) : a historiographical review / Emma Southon, Mary Harlow and Chris Callow -- 7. The family in medieval Islamic societies / Julia Bray -- 8. Age, gender and status : a three-dimensional life course perspective of the Byzantine family / Eve Davies -- 9. Looking at the Byzantine family / Leslie Brubaker -- 10. The Byzantine child : picturing complex family dynamics / Cecily Hennessy -- 11. Social mobility in Byzantium? Family ties in the Middle Byzantine Period / Claudia Ludwig -- 12. The Middle Byzantine house and family : a reappraisal / Simon Ellis -- 13. Family in the Byzantine Greek legend of Saint Alexios, the man of God / Stavroula Constantinou -- 14. La Vie de Théodora de Thessalonique, un écrit familial / Michel Kaplan -- 15. Imperial families : the case of Macedonians (867-1056) / Shaun Tougher -- 16. An Abbasid Caliphal family / Nadia Maria El Cheikh -- 17. Byzantine monastic communities : alternative families? / Dirk Krausmüller -- 18. Families, politics, and memmories of Rome in the Material for history of Nikephoros Bryennios / Leonora Neville -- 19. Changes in the structure of the late Byzantine family and society / Fotini Kondyli.